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March 21, 2005
AJAX quiz development
I have been playing around with some of the tools I was discussing in my last post, creating a page you can see on bigqns. It's a simple form that looks quite plain at the moment - I've not even fancied up the stylesheet much yet, but under the hood it's a little bit more exciting. Fill in an input box, move to the next and before you've even typed your next response it has checked your answer to the first one and given you simple, visual feedback to what you wrote. Not from JavaScript, though that would be cool enough for school, but serverside, using Asynchronous JAvascript and XMLHttpRequest to shift data. The cooler part is that the questions are pulled from a database and put on your page, and the answer(s) are also in that database, checked against by the php script. You can specify multiple answer options in the DB - look at the last question, Name a web-browser - you can try Firefox (or firefox, or fIrEfoX), Internet Explorer, Opera, Netscape, keep on going until you run out of ideas...! None of this is revolutionary application of a, frankly, quite old technology, but its use in e-learning resources and for teaching could be very cool and probably unique (at the moment) Incidentally, I've changed MT to include my del.icio.us links by the php/magpie method. All very lovely, you can see what sites are changing the web design world by looking there.Posted by hounddog32 at March 21, 2005 10:58 PM
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